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        "title": "Historiated Initial (E) Excised from a Gradual: Adoration of the Magi",
        "creation_date": "c. 1200\u20131240",
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        "measurements": "Sheet: 17 x 21 cm (6 11/16 x 8 1/4 in.)",
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            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 311502,
                    "title": "The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art",
                    "description": "<i>The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 25-December 19, 1993).",
                    "opening_date": "1993-09-25T04:00:00"
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                {
                    "id": 357806,
                    "title": "Prince Salim's Life of Christ (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115",
                    "description": "<i>Prince Salim's Life of Christ (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 2, 2019-July 1, 2020).",
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                "description": "(Vladimir G. Simkhovitch [1874\u20131959], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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                "date": "?\u20131952",
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        "description": "All the essential narrative elements\u2014Mary, the infant Jesus, and the three Magi\u2014are tucked into the lower body of the initial <em>E</em>. Although the initial is now separated from its original context in a gradual, or choir book, it would have marked the beginning of a new chant. In this case it is for the feast of Epiphany (January 6), which celebrates the arrival of the Magi in Bethlehem to see the newborn Christ. The Introit for that Mass begins: <em>Ecce advenit dominator Dominus. . . .</em> (Behold the lord the ruler is come. . . .).",
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